IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Salkum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08-DRJ-04
  • User Pedon ID: S2008OR053002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0801
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24481
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 44.9533615
  • Std. Longitude: -123.2864990
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S.
  • Range: 5 W.
  • Section: 22
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR053—Polk
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR053—Polk County, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, mesic Xeric Palehumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Salkum
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Salkum
  • Classificaton Date - 10/17/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: old alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/17/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 21
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—30

    58—80

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    3

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    92.6

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    A—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate coarse granular structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 7 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02688; moist when described; observed in trench
    AB—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 28 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 10 percent by volume subrounded indurated 7-?-200 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded noncoherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 09N02689; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt—58 to 80 centimeters (22.8 to 31.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 5 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 5 percent manganese coatings on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 7-?-200 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded noncoherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02690; moist when described; observed in trench
    2BC—80 to 117 centimeters (31.5 to 46.1 inches); 75 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent coarse spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 1 percent by volume well rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume well rounded noncoherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02691; moist when described; observed in trench
    2C—117 to 160 centimeters (46.1 to 63.0 inches); 75 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; loam; 30 percent sand; 25 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent coarse spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 1 percent by volume well rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume well rounded noncoherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 09N02692; moist when described; observed in trench